Under-reporting and case fatality estimates for emerging epidemics

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Atkins, Katherine E ^a,b   Wenzel, Natasha S ^b   Ndeffo Mbah, Martial ^b   Altice, Frederick L ^c   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^b   Galvani, Alison P ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Section of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CASE FATALITY RISK; DANGER, RISK, SAFETY AND RELATED PHENOMENA; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA, WESTERN; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MORTALITY;

EID: 84926058689     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/BMJ.h1115     Document Type: Article

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